Jamie Waggoner offers Kundalini and Tantric yoga classes & workshops, as well as broader-based classes and workshops rooted in her work with energetics, the Western Hermetic tradition, and Goddess spirituality. Jamie also offers Reiki training.

Jamie unabashedly loves the Divine Mystery — the inexplicable Presence that pervades all corners of our lush and chaotic universe, the Grace found in the stillness between inhale and exhale. Bhakti, intense love and devotion for the Goddess, is Jamie’s heartsong.

Born a storyteller, Jamie began her career as copywriter and creative director in the corporate marketing arena. A cross-country move to Austin, Texas at the close of 2011 made way for a courageous transition from marketing maven to modern mystic. Jamie now uses her talents to create unique experiences that invoke deep spiritual connection, captivate the imagination and inspire personal transformation. Her retellings of ancient myths bridge the gap between then and now, breathing life into the legacies of our ancestors. Jamie skillfully weaves enchantments of story and guided meditation to illuminate how “Her story” remains relevant, and indeed vital, to contemporary life. Dive with her into the cauldron of story and emerge transformed!

A longtime feminist and religious scholar, Jamie holds a B.A. in Philosophy with emphasis in Feminist Studies. She has been an active priestess in the Sisterhood of Avalon, a Celtic Women’s Mystery Tradition, since 2005. She is a Level III Reiki Master practitioner. Jamie co-facilitates Red Tent Austin and is a 200 Hour KRI-Certified Kundalini yoga teacher. She is currently studying the Druidic tradition with the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, as well as growing her understanding of Sri Vidya Tantra. During her yoga teacher training, Jamie was given the spiritual name Akal Dhyan — meaning “Infinite Meditation”. She remains grateful to the universe for sending the reminder.

Lotus Bend is a community, day retreat center, and sanctuary for individuals, couples and groups. Through workshops, programs, and events they provide opportunities to celebrate, heal, transform, and integrate body, mind, and spirit.

They offer their land, rich in beauty and wisdom, as a home to a community that extends beyond the land to create a force for positive change in the world that fosters peace, gratitude, understanding, and communion.

Set on seven acres at the end of a small secluded neighborhood and 1000’s of acres at the far end of Mopac, this little spot is just 25 mins from downtown Austin, yet worlds away from the frantic pace that is the city.

The space is set for private events, workshops, day retreats and public offerings and is a working community in the making.

On a dry/wet watershed in the “bend” of Little Bear Creek, there is vertically no visual contact with the outside and is a wonderful canvas for opening up to the raw elements.

Lotus Bend Sanctuary is a group of practitioners, friends, and family whose belief is that as we expand the heart, mind and spirit, we unlock our inner potential which opens the door to creating beauty, fostering change, and supporting peaceful and mutual coexistence.

Lotus Bend is a sacred place, a place of safety for healing, discovery, reconnection, recreation and reaching out through inward reflection, meditation, ritual, rest, play, reconciliation and communion.

Lotus Bend is a wish, a promise to plant the seeds of awareness, wisdom, stewardship, and action to create a more inclusive, just and compassionate society for all.

Their emblem, the lotus flower, reminds us that we emerge from the primordial clay through the waters of experience and blossom into the bright sunshine of enlightenment, rising high above…but for a brief period.

They invite you to schedule an appointment for a tour of their facilities.

Meet Shannon Gill-Jones:

Shannon Gill-Jones is currently serving as group coordinator with Lotus Bend, through her work with The Shift Foundation, of which she co-founded.

Shannon is an certified Evolutionary Astrologer, Jungian Life Coach, founder of “Rhythm Sanctuary”, an ecstatic dance community in Colorado, and facilitator of women’s spiritual immersion retreats and events.

She is a graduate of Naropa University and received her degree in Contemplative Psychology with an emphasis in Expressive Arts and Healing. She attended the Archetypal Academy in Boulder, CO receiving her professional certification as a Jungian Life Coach, and most recently completed Maurice Fernandez’s Evolutionary Astrology Course.

Shannon serves as Vice President on the board of the ASA (Astrology Society of Austin) and has a private practice in Austin, Tx where she is passionate about empowering people to find alignment with their Soul’s Contract. For more info about Shannon’s astrology services, see her listing in The Aum Nation Service Directory.

ASCEND WITH LOVE

Mary Vaughan (aka Prema), MA, MAT, E-RYT® 500, YACEP® is the founder and owner of Premascension. She provides yoga and healing services for individuals and small groups and teaches at studios in Lake Charles, Louisiana and beyond.

Her spiritual name “Prema” was aptly given as it means, “the energy of love itself in all forms.” Prema brings this loving, healing energy to everything she does. She looks forward to assisting you with your ascension process.

Services Offered:

Healing Services:Healing vs. Curing: A healer is one who has moved through their own pains and traumas, problems and challenges, and has found the way to move through these by learning from them and through grace. In the shamanic tradition, the wounded healer serves others by drawing on his or her own encounters and confrontations and sharing the wisdom gained through his own process of healing. Therefore, healers leave curing for the medical profession, etc. It is not the healer’s responsibility to remove that which needs a doctor’s attention and expertise. Healing is an altogether different matter. Some of the most powerful healing experiences do not involve a cure at all (example: a dying individual making peace before passing; accepting and making the most precious use of time during an illness). Oftentimes, healing is spontaneous, whole, and not always of the expectation of the client; more often, the healing level reaches much further than any expectation can. Expectations involve limits; healing means expansion and can impact the client on multiple levels and through multiple dimensions; hence, the utter beauty of healing lies at the core of the experience.

Yoga:

Private instruction

Public Classes

Workshops

Yoga Nidra: You will work together with Prema to design the perfect Yoga Nidra experience for your needs and desires. This is an ancient and potent practice that works on multi-dimensions of being, from the physical body, emotional body, all the way to the bliss body. You will receive an audio recording of your personally designed Yoga Nidra for home practice convenience.

Munay Ki Initiation: The 9 Rites of the Shaman: Munay-Ki Rites are always freely given to those who are ready. Munay means “love” and Ki means “energy.” These rites contain the opportunity to speed healing and become the evolved Homo Luminous…downloading that which you are already in the process of becoming years from now.

Meet Mary (Prema) Vaughan:

Mary has over 20 years of yoga teaching experience and has studied with and served teachers such as Gary Kraftsow, Deepak Chopra, Krishna Das, Alberto Villoldo, Ray Crist, Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Sadani Janet Houtz, and many others. Mary had the opportunity to study extensively with world-renowned teachers during her time on staff at Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts and as a Lead Teacher and Curriculum Developer in the Teacher Training Program at Yoga Yoga in Austin, Texas.

Now, Mary focuses on her personal practice and catering to individuals and groups who are ready to move deeper into their yoga practice and who are ready to heal and let go of past trauma and/or conditioning to live their fullest potential. Mary also offers shamanically-informed healing services like the Illumination Process as she had undergone her own initiation in 2006 with Q’uero shaman Don Francisco Chura Flores from Peru and Munay-Ki initiation with Ray Crist of The Jaguar Path and through her work and assistance with the Four Winds Society. Mary has provided healing services since 2007.

Currently, Mary spends much of her time teaching literature and composition to high school and college students and training fellow teachers in effective methods as a Content Trainer through the parish school board. As a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, Mary is available to lead webinars and workshops in order to provide continuing education unit certificates. Her blog moves from shared wisdom to social concerns to relationships and beyond. Please, engage, enjoy and share feedback.

For more info about the services Mary (Prema) Vaughan offers, click here.

Wellness practitioners of all types rent space at Sol on a monthly, daily or hourly basis to provide treatments, classes, retreats, trainings, etc. Sol promotes collaboration and an ongoing discovery about multidisciplinary healing as each practitioner offers their unique offerings to clients.

Sol’s physical space includes 14 individual offices, two yoga studios, a classroom/co-working space, three waiting rooms, and kitchen space spread out across three buildings on our two acre campus.

Sol Healing and Wellness Center is intended as a service to its practitioners, their clients, and the community as a whole providing a holistic place for healing, learning and inspiration.

Serving North Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park and Georgetown, Texas with individual and group services that focus on healing the mind, body, and spirit.

Meet the founder of Sol Healing and Wellness Center, LLC.:

Steve Milan, LCSW is a practicing psychotherapist as well as the founder of Sol Healing and Wellness Center. Steve has been pursuing the dream of developing a multidisciplinary healing center for 12 years, and that dream is coming together with Sol. His “starter marriage” of healing centers is now a building holding psychotherapists and a yoga studio in Central Austin. However, Steve was struck by the limitations of his own growth and his professional work due to a specific focus on mind health and development.

As a professional in the 1990s, he embraced Hakomi (a mindfulness-based,body-centered therapy) and Systems-centered therapy as his primary therapeutic modalities. But he also recognized the importance of diluting the artificial boundaries between the studies of body, mind and spirit. So he began a conversation with professionals across multiple disciplines, both conventional and more alternative, to promote a more holistic understanding of how we humans grow and develop. Sol Healing and Wellness Center is both a physical manifestation of that discussion, and a structure which seeks to continue and deepen that discussion by its presence.

Steve also identifies as a father, a partner, a recovering accountant (1st career), a recovering Catholic (1st religion), an inconsistent meditator, a Sufi/Buddhist/Contemplative Christian, a 30-year Ultimate Frisbee player, and a season ticket holding fan of the Austin Sol (no relation) the local professional Ultimate team.

For more info about Sol Healing and Wellness Center and the services they offer click here.

PSYCHIC * SHAMAN * HEALER

Rachel Kirkland, The Modern Shaman, is a world renowned Psychic and Shaman. She has appeared on the BeYou channel, countless radio shows and podcasts, and was awarded “Best Female Medium in the World” in the World Paranormal Awards!

Her passion for empowering others in their own metaphysical connections has led her to offer Facebook Live Feeds with Question and Answer dialogue as well as host her own popular YouTube Channel where she discusses all things spiritual.

Meet Rachel Kirkland:

“My intention is to wholeheartedly use my all of my spiritual gifts within my power and the power that channels through me in order to guide my clients further on their path toward Divine Wholeness.

This will look different for every individual, because we are all just that, individuals. But, mostly what you should feel after a session with me is a deep and profound sense of confirmation – confirmation of what you have always known somewhere inside.” – Rachel Kirkland

For more info about Rachel Kirkland and The Modern Shaman, LLC., or to book an appointment, click here.

The Path of IX centers around shadow work. Do you own your shadow? Or does your shadow own you? Together with The Path of IX founder, Marita, One Who Catches Lightning, you will map out your emotional, etheric, and spiritual body throughout time. By linking internal patterns and programming to physical and emotional manifestations you can begin to see where your shadow resides.

Marita’s metaphysical and spiritual training includes work in the Lakota and Hopi traditions, working with Ascended Masters, past life regression, clearing and working with energy centers (chakras), ancestral healing, working with crystals and plant medicines, mediumship, clearing and protection of places/spaces, spiritual contracts, inner child work, and working with various decks of cards.

Services Offered:

Corporate Mindfulness Trainings

Spiritually Aligned Business Strategy and Branding

Initiation Ceremonies and Group Retreats

Individual or Group Journey Series

Home and Business Clearings

Despacho Ceremonies and Land Blessings

Many of the Path of IX’s services are available online via Skype or Zoom. However, some offerings, such as group retreats, need to be done in-person. Please inquire regarding the offering you are interested in for more details.

Meet Marita:

My name is Marita, One Who Catches Lightning and Walks in Truth,

My Path of IX to own my shadow has offered me countless opportunities of journey, discovery, and challenge.

I am a formally trained fine artist and filmmaker, a singer-songwriter who has released multiple albums, a published poet, a motivational speaker, metaphysical healer with training in multiple modalities, a guide and mentor to people of all ages and backgrounds, a teacher with years of unique original curriculum, and of course always a student, learner and seeker.
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My metaphysical and spiritual training includes work in the Lakota and Hopi traditions, working with Ascended Masters, past life regression, clearing and working with energy centers (chakras), ancestral healing, working with crystals and plant medicines, mediumship, clearing and protection of places/spaces, spiritual contracts, inner child work, and working with various decks of cards. I have worked with individuals and groups, held collaborative workshops, created recurring facebook lives watched by thousands of people, and moved and touched countless others in my work and through my travels. I also grew up within the Ecumenical Charismatic Movement (worth a google search), which included practices from both Christian and Jewish Mysticism, being taught healing with energy, psychic perception including clairvoyance and clairaudience, preaching and leadership, and daily devotional practices to spirit.

I’ve been fortunate enough to complete two degrees, film documentaries in Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana, complete a 1 year artist in residency at the Ann Arbor 16 mm Film Festival, hold a 2 yr residency as a poet and artist with In-Side Out (an organization brining poetry and writing to inner city Detroit), design and paint large-scale public murals, row Crew for the University of Michigan – one of the top performing athletic schools in the nation, record music with world famous musicians, travel and work in many countries around the world, lead rooms of over 500 people in trainings and workshops, and inspire even the most timid to sing and dance in front of an audience (and love doing it).

My path has also led me through physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, bullying, racism, immigration and loss of belonging, serious injuries and multiple surgeries, eating disorders, substance use disorders, panic attacks, depression, gender and sexuality constraints, oppression, suicide attempts, divorce, heartbreak, feelings of never being enough, and significant death and loss of loved ones.
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Today I am in an incredibly powerful and clear place, walking with my shadow beside me, with the intimacy and inner sense of calm that I have always longed for.

However, it has not always been this way.

Between 2008 and 2011 I lost my dream job after two on-the-job injuries that stopped my career dead in its tracks. I was in two car accidents, had three surgeries, was self-medicating with alcohol, and was also nearly institutionalized by a loved one, against my will and against the advice of my own doctors. In 2011, I was in the midst of an ugly divorce at the end of a severely abusive relationship that nearly broke me, physically, spiritually, and financially. Every day I carried a sense of dread that at any moment I might be erased, and cease to exist completely, as though my abusers had god-like powers to snap their fingers and erase me from the universe, and it terrified me. In the midst of these overwhelming feelings of dread, uncertain about whether I had a future, I traveled to Australia and had a session with a powerful healer and art therapist. In that session I was shown how my demons (literal and metaphorical) were clinging to me and dragging me down, crippling me, and in that very moment something began to shift.

That moment was the first step in a radical shift in all areas of my life. I began to work and train anew with dedication to unearthing and owning my shadow, and exploring all the ways that spirit can lift and connect us all as people. Because of the help I received, and the choice I made to continue my journey and pursue and develop my gifts, today I am not drowning in dread every day; instead I feel more myself than ever before, and am living for me instead of anyone else’s idea of who I should be. Rather than panic attacks, suicidality, and persistent fear and hopelessness, now I drink less alcohol, eat healthier, exercise in ways that are kind to my body (rather than punishing), travel more, feel safe and happy in my home, and am experiencing the most rewarding, playful, and intimate relationship of my entire life.

Shame no longer rules my life, and because of that I have been able to succeed in my business and personal life at a degree that I wasn’t capable of before.

I have walked paths others built for me, told me I should be on, and also the paths that I found for myself; in every step on every path I have found the way to parts of myself. The Path of IX has continually shown me to not abandon myself, to seek help, to find support and to always have compassion. Is my journey done? No, everyday I have to “let my jaguar down the tree”, practice embracing it all, be grateful, be in the moment, and keep walking. I feel blessed and inspired as I witness and support others on their own Paths of IX, singing all the parts of themselves together into harmony, so that they too can find the peace and happiness of being alive.

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